I started this blog as part of an Online Journalism module at University. I decided to keep at it because, well, I just love music.

I have ran this blog and freelanced for various websites, blogs and magazines for 10 years. In that time I have interviewed and met some amazing musicians such as: Two Fifty Four, Crocodiles, Warpaint, Dum Dum Girls, Autumns, Dirty Beaches. I have also met Patti Smith which I obviously ended up crying like a baby in front of her. What else could I have done? Some of my work has been used in press releases for bands also.

Some of the publications I have written for are: The Miscreant, Freeq Magazine, Smashed Chair, 4orTheRecord, and I currently write for Joyzine and Heatwave Magazine.

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Hi Olivia, it’s stu from the bedroom hour, don’t know if you remember us but=
you wrote an incredible review about us and I wondered if you would be inte=
rested in writing one now our debut E.P. is ready for release next Friday (1=
7th may)

Couple of older songs on there that we have remastered and mixed as well as a=
few new ones, I have been trying to find you on twitter but no luck, so if y=
ou get a chance please follow me at @broxiestu=20

Happy to get the E.P. dropboxed over to you, and on another note its availab=
le to preorder from iTunes now, how’s things with you anyhow?

Seems a throwaway comment but you are one of the first writers I’ve read to openly acknowledge that ‘cool’ is meaningless. That makes me happy. There need to be more of us simply loving music for the sheer thrill of it. There just have to be. Glad to have found an ally.

It just fosters a really negative approach to culture. We end up with ‘cool’ and ‘uncool’ and all the horrid divisions that creates. Especially when people start to change their behavior to fit into this pointless box in the hope of acceptance. Ooh it makes me mad, it does. Then again, ‘the only true currency in this bankrupt world is what you share with someone else when you’re uncool’. We can be uncool together.

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Olivia(18:07:26) :

Almost Famous! One of the best lines from the film! Nothing should be labelled/divided. That’s where snobbery comes into play, and it is such a secluded way to be x

First bit of stuff I’ve found that’s worth reading for a long time. Stick with what you feel, everything else is unknown because it’s somebody else’s truth. I was looking around to find the London Grammar ‘if you wait’ lyrics and found your site. Nice stumble.